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Introduction / Simon May -- Nietzsche, the self, and the disunity of philosophical reason / Sebastian Gardner -- Nietzsche on free will, autonomy, and the sovereign individual / Ken Gemes -- Autonomy, affect, and the self in Nietzsche's project of genealogy / Christopher Janaway -- How to overcome oneself: Nietzsche on freedom / Robert Pippin -- Nihilism and the free self / Simon May -- Nietzsche's theory of the will / Brian Leiter -- Nietzsche's freedoms / John Richardson -- Nietzschean freedom / Peter Poellner -- Nietzsche's intentions: what the sovereign individual promises / Aaron Ridley -- Autonomy, self-respect, and self-love: Nietzsche on ethical agency / David Owen -- The eternal recurrence: a Freudian look at what Nietzsche took to be his greatest insight / Mathias Risse -- Nietzsche on the will: an analysis of BGE19 / Maudemarie Clark and David Dudrick.Nietzsche is a central figure in our modern understanding of the individual as freely determining his or her own values. These essays by leading Nietzsche scholars investigate what this freedom really means: How free are we really? What does it take to be free? It might be a 'right', but it also needs to be earned. - ;The principal aim of this volume is to elucidate what freedom, sovereignty, and autonomy mean for Nietzsche and what philosophical resources he gives us to re-think these crucial concepts. A related aim is to examine how Nietzsche connects these concepts to his thoughts about lif